The Nigerian capital market resumed from the public holiday with a loss of N47.3billion at the close of trading on Tuesday, IgbereTV reports
After eight hours of trading on the day, the equity capitalization dropped by -0.16 percent to close at N28.63 trillion, down from N28.68 trillion posted last Friday.
The All-Share Index was down by 87.74 basis points to settle at 53,113.64 compared to 53,201.38 achieved last week.
Investors traded 299.99 million shares valued at N3.09 billion in 5,394 deals on Tuesday.
This surpassed the 273.24 million shares worth N2.64 billion traded by investors in 4,584 deals on Friday.
Learn Africa led the gainers with N0.21kobo to move from N2.16kobo to N2.37kobo per share.
Sunu Assurance gained N0.03 to move from N0.32kobo to N0.35kobo per share.
Wapic’s share was up by N0.02 to end trading with N0.42kobo from N0.40kobo per share.
First Bank gained N0.3kobo to close at N10.50kobo from N10.2kobo per share.
Sterling Bank’s share appreciated by N0.03 to rise from N1.52kobo to N1.55kobo per share